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"As Rolling Stone reported earlier this year, for the past six months, Taylor Swift has been writing the follow-up to her quadruple-platinum album Red. She recently opened up further to the&amp;#xA0;Associated Press, saying&amp;#xA0;it&amp;apos;s a record that will show off a different side of her.\r\nWhere Does Taylor Swift&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&amp;apos; Rank on Our 50 Best Songs of 2012?\r\n&amp;quot;I think the goal for the next album is to continue to change, and never change in the same way twice,&amp;quot; she explained in an interview that took place after receiving her sixth songwriter-artist of the year award from Nashville Songwriters Association International. &amp;quot;How do I write these figurative diary entries in ways that I&amp;apos;ve never written them before and to a sonic backdrop that I&amp;apos;ve never explored before?&amp;quot;\r\nShe answers her own question later in the interview, after she praises her songwriting partners and &amp;quot;dream collaborators&amp;quot; on Red, Shellback and Max Martin. She answers a question about what she has planned for her new album, by describing how those writers pushed her when they wrote the hits&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;22.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll bring in ideas and they&amp;apos;ll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I love people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where music can go.&amp;quot;\r\nIt&amp;apos;s no wonder she&amp;apos;s elated, since her fusion of pop and country led to six CMA nominations this year, where she said the genre has &amp;quot;pushed the boundaries more than ever before.&amp;quot; Her success is what led her to open the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, an endeavor that cost a reported $4 million.\r\nWhere Does Taylor Swift&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;Red&amp;apos; Rank on Our 50 Best Albums of 2012?\r\nBut despite superstar moves like that, she protests being labeled a &amp;quot;pop star,&amp;quot; when AP likens her to Madonna. &amp;quot;I would never see myself that way,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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